Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: ; arg seperator From: Edin Kadribasic (edink <email protected>)
Date: 04/03/01

Shouldn't the solution be that the parser uses '&' *and* arg_separator when
arg_separotor is not '&'? In that way the default behaviour of php is
unchanged.

Edin
----- Original Message -----
From: Edin Kadribasic <edink <email protected>>
To: Jani Taskinen <sniper <email protected>>
Cc: PHP Developer List <php-dev <email protected>>; PHP Quality Assurance
<php-qa <email protected>>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: ; arg seperator

> > >> Which reminds me: If arg_separator is used like it was before my
patch
> > >> and you set it to e.g. ';' and then have a form which method
> > >> is GET..well, it won't work. there would be one variable
> > >> holding all the info.
> > >
> > >Urls that are the result of a submitted form are generated by the
browser
> > >and not php, and I don't know of a browser that will use anything other
> that
> > >'&' for that.
> >
> > Exactly. And that's why if you change the arg_separator to ";"
> > those forms didn't work (before my patch).
> >
> > I actually didn't test it though so I'm not 100% sure.
> > Could someone check it out with 4.0.4pl1?
>
> You are right. The following php script:
>
> <?php
> print "a=$a<br>b=$b<br>";
> ?>
> <form>
> <input type="text" name="a" value="1"><br>
> <input type="text" name="b" value="1"><br>
> <input type="submit">
> </form>
>
> with arg_separator set to ";" in php.ini produces
>
> a=1&b=2
> b=
>
> It is clear that documentation in php.ini is wrong, arg_separator is not
> only used for generation but also for parsing of arguments (4.0.4pl1). 

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